Motor-driven vehicle.



UiiiEB STATES -inorosnnswss v einem..

Sp acificstion of Letters Patent.

Patented Itay 7', 19457.

Application ned ianwyzs, 1907. semi No, agisse.

To 1H wl'wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBEN L. MCMURTRY, s citizen of the United States, residing; 1n the borourh of Manhattan citi, eount andL y 5, i

Stute of New York, have invented Certain Improvements in Motor-Driven Vehicles, of which the following1 is s specification.

This invention comprises novel means, hereinafter specifically set forth and claimed, ol carrying upon the body of a. motor driven vehicle one or more reserve rims each' of which may have the usuel shoe and sir tube ready for use.

in the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is e partial side elevation; Fig'. 2, en en lsrgedseetion on the line 2, 2, of Fig. 1: and Fig. 3, s section on the line', 8, of Fig. 2.

ittnehed to the body of the vehicle on either side of one of the entrances thereto, or otherwise. appropriatelyT pissed, ere brackets o'y supporting outwardly extended bolts t.

The foce of the bracket is recessed ss at c to receive e ing d on e sleeve e surrounding the bolt. looking:r joints 0, d. The purpose is to provide s 'ready means for preventing turning movement ot the sleeve on the bolt. The inner end oi the sleeve shuts against the bracket interlockingl therewith end hss s projeeting lusr j' appropriately shaped and against which the tire rim g is pressed or clamped there being' u on the op )osito side of the rim si clamping n ste il, sppllied over the bolt st the end of t e sleeve and held by s nut i Working upon a thread j formed on the vbolt intermediate its ends. The Clamping plete it hss s projection fr seating in e. socket in the under ieee of the sleeve and serving to prevent turning rnovenient'of the 1ste.

Beyond the thread j; the bolt is of redueed din-meter and in the sides oi the thread are ont one or more recesses m in which srs sented lugs (corresponding with those d on the sleeve e) forming part of s. second sieeve e applied over the outer portion oi the boit. This sleeve hss s suitably shaped iugf sud s clamping plete h interlocking es already de scribed with the sleeve and serving, under the stress, of s. nut n applied to the threaded end of the bolt to Ciani and support s seeond rim j". Two such olts with the equipnient described', or equivalent thereof, srrsnged dismetricslly opposite with reference to the diameter of the reserve Wheel rims, afford s secure and convenient wey of carrying two reserve rims. 1'

l olsirn vehicle, means for carrying reserve wheei rims comprising pinrnlity o bolts projecting from the body of the vehicle, s wheel rim. supporting' sleeve enveloping eseh bolt end having; s projection st one end niilsnted to engage one side of s Wheei run, s demping device mounted upon the boit et the other end of the sieeve end adapted to engage the other side of s Wheei rini snd ineens whereby s wheel rim may be detschsblj; oisrnped hetWeen seid device end the projection st the end of the sleeve.

2'. in oornbinstion with e. motor driven ve- 4hiele, Ineens for osrrying'reserve Wiresi comprising e. phirniity of bolts proie from the body of the vehicle, e. Wh n supporting sieeve enveioping each bolt end having s'projeetion et one enti sdspted to engage one side of s Wheei rim, s eiinnping' device mounted upon the bolt 'et the other end of the sieeve snd adopted to engage the There may be one or more suoli interother side of s wheel rirn snd means whereby s Wheel rim. may be detsehsbly clamped between ssid device end the projection st the end of the sleeve find ineens for preventing rotation of the sleeve on the bolt.

3. Means for carrying reserve wheei. rims comprising s. bolt supportinfi bracket sdnpted to be sttsohed to the side of the vehieie, s. sies-ve erwelopingl the bolt, having interloeking connection with. the bracket to prevent rotation ot the sieeve end s eotion et one end sdspted to clamp one side oit sYK wheel. rim, s clamping plete et one end of the Steeve adepte/.tto engage the other side the n'f'heel rim, enveloping the bolt end hsving interlocking' connection with the sleeve to prevent rotation of the piste end s olsmp nut engsging s thres'd on the bolt.

4. in combination with e motor driven vew hiele, niesns for carrying reserve Wheel rims comprising; s pinrelity of Abolts projectingr 'from the bedr,v oi the vehicle eseh boit having two parts of uneqnsi diameter that of the -iergest 'lism'eterbeing sdjneent the side oi the vehicle and two thresds one et the outer end o esoh snob part of the boit, s Steeve enveioping the port et' isreer disnieter adjacent the vehieie body end heving s projection adapted to engage one side ot s wheei rim, Ineens for prei/'enti c damping devise enveloping the boitst the "other end of the sieeve, ineens for preventing the rotation of the eters, inv" device end s.

'1. In combination with s niotor driven.

.ff rotation of the sie/eve, s

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" t5 Ioom 121 V'-caoxp .out working on the threaded A'part ofi 'the 'hott 'zatelmedia'te its ends, e second rim ing seexfe mounted upon the 'outer oot-'end having e projection et s, opted ,to engage the 'sdeofthe w1 Tun means foi' preventing rotation of theseeve, e, stomping device et the other end of the seeond Steeve and enveloping the bolt 'end sdztpted to elemp the other sdeof the' am whee rim, mooos'for preventing rotationA of the olompng device and a. clamp out applied et theend of the bolt. l

y o combination with a motor driven Vehloe. eens for. eerrymg reserfe Wheel runs sogg o f pluraht of bolt' supporting "5'3eeetse-ttachedtot e'sde ofthezvobcla. bote easrxed thereby mild having en mixer oox'txon of one dlemeter thresdedofet lts outer und en outer portion-of less ,diameter seing a projection; adapted to engage- -Aon'e tion 'between the seeve and. beeket to revent rotation of the forme?, e demping p ate et the other end of said see've adopted to en; gege tho other side of the Wheel rim and having interlocking connection 'with the sleeve ,and s clamp nut applied to the thread on such portion of the bolt, a second im supporting sleeve applied to the port of the 'ooit of less diameter and having at its one eind e projection adopted toy engage one side of s.

wheel rim, an nterloekng oonneeton between' the sleeve and bolt to prevent rotation of the former, a eemp plete et the other side of o Wheel m, en interlocking conne@- tion between it and the lest named sleeve and a clamp out applied. upon the end of the bolt.

o testimony whereof, have hereunto subv"scribed my name. l

j ALDEN L. Momma?. Witnesses: 

